Inside the ’63 Chevy 427 Mystery Engine
 

Cool story on the 1963 Chevy 427 Mystery Engine...

https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/insi...ystery-engine/

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wow interesting info and opinions. Great Article and discussion. thanks

Inside the ’63 Chevy 427 Mystery Engine
 

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Awesome article, thanks for posting the link!
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~ Pete

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Well written article. Very factual according to my references. The comments were especially interesting to read.
Thanks for posting

Verne

Re: Inside the ’63 Chevy 427 Mystery Engine
 

It would be neat to get this car at MCACN:


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This example is installed in the Ray Fox-prepared ’63 Impala driven by Junior Johnson in the 1963 NASCAR season, an amazing time-capsule car that survives today in near-original condition</div></div>

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My dad made the stamped metal components (valve covers, oil pan, rocker arms) for the Mystery motor while a die maker at Chevrolet Flint Manufacturing.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Verne_Frantz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Well written article. Very factual according to my references. The comments were especially interesting to read.
Thanks for posting

Verne </div></div>

Comments were very interesting. One minor Pontiac quibble: the Pontiac that won the Daytona race was a '63 Tempest (not a '63 Pontiac GTO as stated).

K

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I envy your Dad Keith for being able to work with Dick Keinath. Dick told me a great tidbit. No one in Chevy management above his direct manager knew anything about the MK-II until a couple of them were at Daytona in '63. A news reporter asked one of them for a comment about the &quot;new race engine&quot; and they said &quot;what engine?&quot;. According to Dick that's when &quot;the poop hit the propeller&quot;. Right after that was when the edict went down that anyone caught having anything to do with racing would be shown the door immediately.

Verne

That's an excellent tidbit. Keinath has always been one of my Chevy heroes. I've always wondered how to correctly pronounce his last name.

nice article

There was (sort of) a third Mystery 427 Chevy engine.

In 1965 the 396 production block was cast with enough material to take the 427 bore size.

NASCAR allowed it to run in some of the 1965 full size cars (Impala Biscayne) even though the 427 was not a production engine until 1966